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Publication details [#51646]

Tardy, Christine M. 2009. 'Press 1 for English': textual and ideological networks in a newspaper debate on US language policy. Discourse & Society 20 (2) : 265–286.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adaptation | ideology | language policy | national language | newspaper report

Language as a subject

English, American

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper explores the 180 texts of a newspaper-mediated language policy debate (and its assimilationist ideology) in reaction to American Senate legislation declaring English the national U.S. language.